Filling in the blanks on adoptees' medical history
For many people, filling out paperwork about their family's health history is a routine part of a medical visit. For adopted people like Ramya Gruneisen, it's impossible.
Nov 11, 2024
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Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services: News and Research on Genetic Testing
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Visual explainers help doctors 'translate' genetic reports to families
A new study from Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) has found clinicians can benefit from plain language guides and graphics about genetic testing.
Oct 29, 2024
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Researchers link cancer gene to Scottish island
People with grandparents from a remote Scottish island are more likely than the rest of the U.K. population to have a version of a gene that increases cancer risk.
Oct 24, 2024
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Genetic analysis of 25,000 Chinese mothers and infants reveals unique genes associated with disease risk
Genome-wide association studies have great potential for advancing our understanding of the genetic background of diseases, but so far, few association studies have focused on maternal and newborn diseases, and most have ...
Oct 9, 2024
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Experts argue the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder label is simplistic and racist, and should be replaced
Fifty years after it was first coined, the diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) now does more harm than good and should be dropped, according to a group of Canadian doctors led by University of Alberta developmental ...
Sep 24, 2024
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Hereditary cancer is more common than you might think
Cancer touches nearly every Australian, with 1 in 2 people facing a diagnosis by age 85.
Sep 16, 2024
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Can chatbots help with genetic testing for cancer risk?
In a study from Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) and NYU Langone Perlmutter Cancer Center, researchers found that a specialized chatbot can effectively assist patients in deciding whether to pursue ...
Sep 10, 2024
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New international guidelines could boost accuracy for cancer genetic testing
New international guidelines developed by QIMR Berghofer researchers are expected to improve the accuracy of genetic tests that determine a person's cancer risk.
Aug 15, 2024
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Q&A: Generative AI 'drift' and 'nondeterminism' inconsistences are important considerations in health care applications
Samuel (Sandy) Aronson, ALM, MA, executive director of IT and AI Solutions for Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine and senior director of IT and AI Solutions for the Accelerator for Clinical Transformation, is the ...
Aug 12, 2024
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Researchers highlight the limitations of a specific commercially available clinical genetic test in dermatology
Earlier this year, Department of Genetics professor Joel Sax, along with Christopher McFarland, assistant professor at the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, and Bryan Carroll, associate professor for the Department ...
Jul 26, 2024
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